Thoughts on Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism
Liberalism is a great book. Like many great books it picks an audacious,
painfully obvious question and attacks it relentlessly with courage and
intelligence. Here, the question is simplw: why were the countries with the
strongest liberal traditions (Britain, the US, France) simultaneously those most
embroiled in the slave trade? And, simultaneously, how did the liberal
commentators resolve this seemingly obvious contradiction? Exhaustively
considering the positions of the most prominent liberal scholars of the time,
from Locke to de Tocqueville, Losurdo takes us down the many disturbing avenues
that this question opens up...
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